Ils sont tombes charles aznavour biography
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On October 1st, Charles Aznavour, the world’s last and greatest troubadour, was funnen dead in the bath at his home in the small village of Mouriès, in southern France. He was ninety-four. Aznavour’s career spanned nearly eighty years, at least a thousand songs, three hundred albums, dozens of tours, and many, many films. His music, animated bygd an earthy interest in what addles and excites the common man, had a revolutionizing impact on French pop, extending its lifetime well past its mid-century golden age, and its influence well beyond the borders of Aznavour’s nation.
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9 things you never knew about French singer Charles Aznavour
César Award-winner Tahar Rahim – who has also starred in Napoleon and (though he might want to forget this) the widely derided Madame Web, as well as US TV series The Looming Tower – is, by all accounts, on top form as the singer in the new biopic.
Charles Aznavour is a huge name in France and most French people could sing you at least one of his songs. But he's much less well known outside France, so here are some things to know about him.
Charles Aznavour wasn’t his real name
Charles Aznavour was born Shahnour Vaghinag Aznavourian on May 22nd, , into a family of artists in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris. His parents were Armenian immigrants who fled to France to escape the Armenian genocide.
The Aznavourians ran a small restaurant in rue de la Huchette, which had become a hangout for actors and musicians. Effectively raised by performers, the young Charles dropped out of school at the age of nine in favour of a li
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Charles Aznavour
| Track | Album / Single |
|---|---|
| Les Deux Guitares | Charles Aznavour () |
| Je M'Voyais Déjà | Charles Aznavour () |
| Hier Encore | Accompagné Par Paul Mauriat |
| La Bohême | Charles Aznavour (La Bohême) |
| Les Bon Moments | Barclay |
| Les Comédiens | Barclay |
| Le Cabotin | Barclay SBP |
| Non, Je N'ai Rien Oublié | Non, Je N'ai Rien Oublié |
| Comme Ils Disent | Idiote Je T'Aime |
| The Old Fashioned Way | The Old Fashioned Way |
Charles Aznavour playlist
Contributor: Andrew Shields
Born Shahnour Aznavourian to Armenian parents in Paris in , Charles Aznavour went on to become one of the greatest (if not the greatest) French chansonniers of the twentieth (and twenty-first) centuries. Both his father and mother were enthusiastic semi-amateur performers who appeared in plays (generally in Armenian) in small local theatres. Aznavour later claimed that he loved the fact that both they and their fellow actors “acted only for the pleasure o